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" It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically. "
Zacky Vengeance
Been
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Happy
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" Only a world spinning out of control could inspire the music and vision we have now. "
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" Our first radio single, 'The Stage,' was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise. "
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" We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries. "
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" Just by nature, we're always filled with so many ideas and want to cram as many ideas into a song as we can, and I think that gave us a lot of our signature sound. "
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Want
Nature
Ideas
" We've shown everyone we are musicians first and foremost: we'll produce our own albums and play The 100 Club. We earned people's respect. We're not the band on MTV, wearing a bunch of makeup. We've proved we're the real deal. "
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Makeup
Respect
" We've never tried to write radio hits. If I hear our song on the radio, it's cool, and I'm proud, but it's never a goal. "
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Song
Radio
" Basically, we're just a bunch of kids who got together and try to use what we have and try to learn from each other. "
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Got
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" All the song choices that we've picked are unique in their own right. They're fun, and it's really just to engage our fans. "
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" After 'City of Evil,' the world was still kind of apprehensive about Avenged Sevenfold. They didn't know if we were a serious band or just some kids trying to play really ambitious music with crazy guitar parts that would be here one minute and gone the next. "
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World
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" We're not a Screamo band. "
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" I'd like to think that we will have had something to do with a shift back to heavy rock. That's what we've wanted all along, and we knew there'd be fearless steps to take to achieve that. "
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Achieve
Back
Fearless
" Once you can get a fan to listen to an album a handful of times and really have a lot of substance for them to grasp, then you're looking at having a fan that really appreciates what you do for life and can appreciate coming to see it live. "
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Looking
" There are so many people involved in making an album, and naturally, all you want to do is show it to your friends and family. You just can't do any of that because all it takes is one morsel of information on the Internet. Within seconds, it's around the whole world. "
Zacky Vengeance
You
People
Family
" I worked a lot on our album cover, and I didn't just want to post it on our website one day and move on. We wound up breaking it into 18 pieces and hiding them on fan sites all over the Internet and then posting clues, so fans could put together the puzzle. "
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Internet
Day
" Not everyone is going to love you. Not everyone is going to like what you do, and you see a lot of people don't want to let go of the bands that they love. They don't want to move forward. They don't want to let new things come in; they're scared of change. They're scared of new bands taking over their genre. They're just scared of change. "
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New Things
Change
You
" We're in the business of making fans that will last with us a lifetime. In order to do that, you've gotta give them something special. "
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Last
Business
Special
" From day one, we've always gotten backlash for certain outlandish ideas that we've had and presented. That's also kind of been the driving force that's pushed us forward. "
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Ideas
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Forward
" We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes Avenged truly unrelenting and building off of that. "
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Been
" My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections. "
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Parents
Music
" It's just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and totally take a song and twist it around and have fun with it. "
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Language
Rock
" I remember what it felt like when I was young, and I looked up to someone, and they would pay me just an ounce of attention. And some of the bands I listened to when I was young probably never even sold any albums, but it didn't matter to me. If I'd go up and say, 'Great show,' it would be amazing that they even would acknowledge me. "
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Amazing
Attention
Me
" We're focused on making our fans happy, keeping each other happy, so we can do this forever. "
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Fans
Focused
Forever
" There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines. "
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Seen
Most
Never
" When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument. "
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You
Music
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" With 'Hail To The King' - our last album - we obviously wore our influences on our sleeve, and it was a blatant attempt to turn on our younger generation of fans to more classic-sounding metal. "
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Generation
Fans
Turn
" You always have to try new things, and that's the one thing that we've learned from all the greats - every album isn't gonna be every fan's favorite, but as long as you keep switching it up and making new fans, it's really about being persistent. "
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Long
New Things
You
" We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right now. "
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Nobody
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Doing
" When you see a band, you want to see characters. "
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" When we called each other and got the call that Jimmy had died, literally, it all ended right there. Everything we've ever known as human beings, everything we've ever known as a band, changes at that moment, and you can't think clearly. "
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" Mike Elizondo had an incredible array of guitars in the studio, but they were all right-handed. "
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